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Affective Dynamics Study Group showing at Home Cinema Online Film Festival 2024

Apr 2024

I’m pleased to have Affective Dynamics Study Group selected as part of the Homecinema.video online film festival, alongside artists such as Beatrice Gibson, Sam Keogh, and Mark Leckey. The video is up from the 1-7st...

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Affective Dynamics Study Group in Berlin

Jan 2024

My video Affective Dynamics Study Group has been selected as part of the video installation series Viewing Copy at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. The video will be on show from 17 January–17 March 2024. It’s the first...

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Palestine: reading/watching/action

Jan 2024

I’ve been wanting to share some the articles, films and organisers that have taught me the most during these last months of Israel’s live-streamed scorched-earth assault on Gaza. Hoping some of these links might be...

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No Fear wins jury prize at 60seconds Festival in Copenhagen

Dec 2023

‘No Fear‘ was awarded the jury prize at the 2023 60seconds festival in Copenhagen. The jury this year consisted of Julia van Mourik (director of The One Minutes), Naghmeh Pour (director of Iran-e Man) and...

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CommissionTranslation

Heinz Peter Knes: Correspondences

Oct 2023

In spring, I spent a few weeks translating Correspondences, a book of writing by queer German photographer Heinz Peter Knes. I loved the exchange with Heinz and learned so much about German queer and radical...

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CommissionWebsite

MM-U Website

Oct 2023

The Metabolic Museum-University is launching its new website on the occasion of its SKIN IN THE GAME exhibition at KW in Berlin. The website was developed by Michael Derringer, Marijn Degenaar designers KaranKobel and myself...

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CommissionFashion

Paris Fashion Week: CFCL Spring 2024

Sep 2023

Nile Koetting and I have completed our third show for CFCL at Paris Fashion Week. This edition featured artwork by artist Toshihiko Mitsuya and live music by tabla player KYURI.

Such a large part...

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It’s OK… Calibrating Intimacies 5&6

Sep 2023

In 2023 Joy Mariama Smith and I started collaborating, researching intimacy and friendship practices. We shared some first work from this collaboration at Oude Kerk in Amsterdam on Aug 24th and Sep 1st 2023.

This...

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Field of Study

Jul 2023
Person facing a horse at the edge of a field at sunset

Field of Study is an experimental, residential study week which took place in July 2023 for eleven participants at The Mirror Institution in Öland, Sweden. The project was initiated by Opashona Ghosh, Emmeli Person, Liza...

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CommissionPerformance

Belle Santos: The Wake

Jul 2023

garment: outer covering, sewn skin-like fabric/fabric, a soft container, a suit
depression: a state of mourning
vessel: a container capable of holding something or someone
the wake: a performative attempt, a sketch, wake, form of...

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CommissionVideo

ddx – Different [Brutaż-13]

May 2023

I loved being choreographed by the one-and-only Iga Świeściak for this music video for a track by ddx, released by Brutaż. It was shot in Iga’s Pankow studio in a matter of hours. Check out...

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CommissionWebsite

History Workshop website

Jan 2023

What does radical history look like in a digital era? For the past fifteen years, History Workshop has been trailblazing in historians’ use of the digital to make production and communication of history a radically...

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WorkPress

Positionen – Texte zur aktuellen Musik

Nov 2022

Delighted to have my work featured on the cover of issue 133 of the German contemporary music magazine Positionen. The magazine features documentation from Affective Dynamics Study Group, Age of Majority as well as work...

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WorkPerformance

Soft Shell Hard Core

Dec 2017

The artist, alone with their laptop as if in their bedroom, compiles intimate texts from a variety of highly personal sources, with their desktop projected behind them for all to see. Diary entires and emails...

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Affective Dynamics Study Group

Nov 2021

Affective Dynamics Study Group is a video showing a temporary collective exploring issues around interpersonal relations, non-violent communication, vulnerability, complicity and new ways of being and living together. Part consciousness-raising group, part experiential group, the collective meets to perform a series of...

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Glimpses beyond the violence of normativity

Jul 2021

I gave a workshop with the 2021 cohort of Rupert’s Alternative Education Programme. We spent two days reading, moving, and discussing access needs, collaboration strategies, and how COVID has shaped our own relationships to our...

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Collective display of affection

Jan 2020

Writing workshop at Camden Arts Centre hosted by the Peer Forum 2020 participants: Miriam Austin, Naz Balkaya, Harry Bix, Rosa Doornenbal, Lea Collet, Romeo Roxman Gatt, Maria Gorodeckaya, Zaiba Jabbar, Natalia Janula, Lou Marcellin, Eleni...

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Age of Majority

Dec 2019

Born into a dying future, today’s preadolescents are the first representatives of Generation Alpha – a generation likely to be faced with immense global challenges in their lifetime. Too young to be afforded a democratic...

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WorkMusic

PlusX / Cashmere Radio

Nov 2019

In this episode of +X, Dylan Spencer-Davidson and Lauryn Youden share excerpts
from recent performances, as well as a collage of references relating to their
practices, taking listeners on a journey through codependency, chronic illness,

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WorkVideo

No Fear

Jun 2016

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WorkPerformance

The way I feel under your command

Nov 2019

Inspired by J.L. Moreno’s concept of the ‘therapeutic soliloquy’, the performance is centred around an hour-long stream-of-consciousness monologue, in which autobiographical fragments are shared out loud as a means of exploring and processing accumulated experience....

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CommissionPerformance

Verena Buttmann, Die Kammer

Jun 2019

Performance by Verena Buttmann at KIT Düsseldorf. Performers: Albina Kozakova, Dylan Spencer-Davidson, Verena Buttmann. Music: Verena Buttmann and Dylan Spencer-Davidson.

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CommissionPerformance

Joan Jonas, Delay Delay

Mar 2018

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WorkPerformance

I don’t feel safe to tell you

Nov 2016

I don’t feel safe to tell you emerged out of research into psychological and physical therapies, practices and programmes including: Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE), Non-Violent Communication (NVC), Systema, and...

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WorkMusic

Future perfekt chapter zero voluntary exile from the flat world

Nov 2016

A mix made during my residency at Bibliothek Andreas Züst. “This mix is a compilation of some of the things I would listen to while browsing the library late at night, when the Alpenhof staff...

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